Two Americans win Nobel Prize in economics

Andrew Benintendi highlighted a seven-run fourth inning with a bases-clearing double, Brock Holt hit for the first cycle in postseason history, and the visiting Boston Red Sox rolled to a 16-1... When the U.S. Supreme Court meets this morning, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh will be sitting on the end of the bench.

Product of the Year finalists face off Wednesday

Andrew Benintendi highlighted a seven-run fourth inning with a bases-clearing double, Brock Holt hit for the first cycle in postseason history, and the visiting Boston Red Sox rolled to a 16-1... Pete and Gerry's Organics LLC's Nellie's Free-Range Eggs has been named the official egg of the Boston Red Sox, joining a list of team-approved brands ... (more)

Looking Back with Aurore Eaton: The MacDowell Colony a ” A haven for composers

Andrew Benintendi highlighted a seven-run fourth inning with a bases-clearing double, Brock Holt hit for the first cycle in postseason history, and the visiting Boston Red Sox rolled to a 16-1... Pete and Gerry's Organics LLC's Nellie's Free-Range Eggs has been named the official egg of the Boston Red Sox, joining a list of team-approved brands ... (more)

Church Talk: A proper focus in time of trouble

In times of stress and trouble, as we're seeing now in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, but also in any other disaster or tragedy, it is too easy for those of us whose homes are "high and dry" and who "lost" little or nothing, to offer empty platitudes and often well-meaning but useless advice to those who have lost so much. We can say things like: "it was just a house," or "you're young; you can rebuild."

Grassley Suggests Women Can’t Handle Judiciary Committee

Republican senator Chuck Grassley suggested on Friday that one of the reasons there aren't any Republican women on the Senate Judiciary Committee because they couldn't handle the workload. "It's a lot of work - maybe they don't want to do it," Grassley responded when he was asked why the GOP hasn't been able to recruit any women to the Committee, which he chairs.

Here’s How Red Sox Beat Yankees In Game 1 Of ALDS

Reaction Swift To Kavanaugh's Confirmation To U.S. Supreme Court While some praised Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, others shared their disappointment. Brett Kavanaugh Sworn In As Supreme Court Justice After months of contentious debate, senators voted Saturday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next justice on the United States Supreme Court.

Protesters use images of Flyers’ new mascot to decry Trump

Demonstrators march through the Center City holding a banner with an image of Philadelphia Flyers' new mascot Gritty before a speech by President Donald Trump at the National Electrical Contractors Convention, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, in Philadelphia. Philadelphians are using the city's latest sports mascot to protest a visit by Trump.

Essential Politics: Just as soon as California enacted a net neutrality law, Trump sued

The lesson we've now learned about the political relationship between California and the administration of President Trump is one closely aligned with the third law of motion discovered by Sir Isaac Newton in 1686: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Certainly that's what we saw on Sunday, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a closely watched state law reconstituting the net neutrality rules scuttled by Trump in 2017.

How Chicago Lured Roger Federer And The Laver Cup

Laver Cup, Roger Federer 's Team Europe Versus Team World tournament dedicated to tennis legend Rod Laver , the fact that the city had its own namesake musical wasn't part of the lure-although it did come in handy in appropriated production numbers in the gala that kicked off the tournament last week. The city's famous deep dish pizza did play a small part as Federer and team were taken to famous pizza den Lou Malnati's during his whirlwind familiarization tour of the city.

Drexel center may make Philadelphia squash capital

Shanin Specter, who met his wife playing squash, said his late father loved the racket sport so much that he often joked that nothing on his crowded U.S. Senate schedule was as significant as his daily hour on the court. "He played for most of his life, nearly every day," Specter said recently during an interview in his Center City law offices.

NJ probes FanDuel refusal to pay $82G on wrong football odds

In this July 14, 2018, file photo, people, left, talk to tellers while placing bets at the Meadowlands Racetrack, in East Rutherford, N.J. Dozens of states are rushing to capitalize on the U.S. Supreme Court lifting a federal ban on sports gambling. Photo Credit: AP ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - New Jersey gambling regulators are investigating whether FanDuel's sports book should pay out more than $82,000 to a man who was given exorbitant odds for the Denver Broncos to win Sunday against the Oakland Raiders.

Easier gambling has sports worried about fighting the fix

With dozens of states rushing to offer legal sports gambling in the wake of this spring's landmark U.S. Supreme Court' ruling, will fixed games - or parts of games - become more common? The four major pro major sports leagues and the NCAA have argued for years in court that expanding legal betting will lead to more game-fixing. The pro leagues have sought, unsuccessfully so far, to get a cut of state gambling revenues to increase monitoring.

‘A Bully and a Bigot.’ Trump Draws Fire From Democrats at Annual LGBT Dinner

During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged to be an LGBT-friendly president, featured an openly gay speaker on stage at the Republican convention and tweeted that he would be better on gay rights issues than Hillary Clinton. But when the nation's leading LGBT civil rights group met Saturday night for an annual dinner, a running theme for the night was that they could not imagine a president more hostile to their concerns.

Hurricane Florence In The Valley

R.S. Monger and Sons employees Marc Gloeckner and Chris Jackson fill sandbags Wednesday afternoon in preparation for Hurricane Florence. A James Madison University student walks across the bridge from Bridgeforth Stadium to Greek Row on a drizzly Friday afternoon.